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1. www.businessinsider.com › youtube-oral-historyHow YouTube Was Started: an Oral History of the Platform's ...

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   May 28, 2020 · The video sharing service, founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, was incorporated on Valentine's Day in 2005, hosted its first video two months later, and launched to the public by May.

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2. medium.com › cornertechandmarketing › the-story-ofThe Story Behind YouTube’s History as a Dating Site

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   Dec 27, 2020 · Since been founded in 2005 by formal PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, Youtube was quickly racked up by Google in only a year and a half for a whopping 1.65 billion dollars.

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4. ltse.com › insights › how-youtube-nearly-becameSteve Chen on how he started YouTube, scaled it, and sold it ...

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   Steve’s first day at PayPal was when he met his eventual YouTube co-founder, Chad Hurley. Developing a close relationship over the years, they both knew they wanted to work on something together, although Steve admits, almost sheepishly, that their original idea wasn’t remotely close to what it is today.

5. www.founderoo.co › playbooks › steve-chen-chadSteve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim · YouTube - Founderoo

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   After leaving PayPal, Steve Chen approached Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim to brainstorm ideas. They settled on the concept of a video dating site, inspired by their encounter with Jim Young, the founder of Hot or Not. They believed that videos could provide a more authentic and personal way for people to connect and find potential romantic partners.

6. www.slashgear.com › 1204910YouTube Was Designed To Be A Dating Site (But Pivoted After ...

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   Feb 25, 2023 · After five days had passed, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim devised another tack. "Okay, forget the dating aspect, lets just open it up to any video," Chen noted while speaking at SXSW ...

7. www.entrepreneur.com › growing-a-business › youtubesYouTube's Co-Founder Just Made a $1.65 Billion Case for the ...

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   Mar 17, 2016 · YouTube's Co-Founder Just Made a $1.65 Billion Case for the Early Pivot The company was originally going to be a dating site. Good thing co-founders Steve Chen, Jawed Karim and Chad Hurley ...

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   Why did Steve Chen start a video dating site?

   • After leaving PayPal, Steve Chen approached Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim to brainstorm ideas. They settled on the concept of a video dating site, inspired by their encounter with Jim Young, the founder of Hot or Not. They believed that videos could provide a more authentic and personal way for people to connect and find potential romantic partners.

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   Who are Steve Chen & Chad Hurley?

   • Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim were young engineers recruited by Max Levchin for PayPal. They worked tirelessly, often putting in 80 to 90 hours a week. Despite the challenges, they realized they worked well together and began discussing ideas for future projects.

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   Why did Steve Chen and Chad Hurley leave PayPal?

   • Inspired by their entrepreneurial spirit, they left PayPal and embarked on their next journey. Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim were young engineers recruited by Max Levchin for PayPal. They worked tirelessly, often putting in 80 to 90 hours a week.

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   Why did Chen & Hurley start a video company?

   • The on-paper fairy tale of the company's founding, concocted after the fact with the help of an external public relations agency, is that Chen and Hurley had the idea after a dinner party and wanted to share some videos they'd recorded that night but couldn't quite figure out how.

   How YouTube Was Started: an Oral History of the Platform's Early Days

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   Who is Steve Chen?

   • Steve Chen, YouTube cofounder and former CTO: It was almost too bold of us to say we were going to create a generic platform where we could host all the videos on the internet. A week went by, we didn't receive a single video of the dating variety.

   How YouTube Was Started: an Oral History of the Platform's Early Days

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   Why did Chad & Steve decide to sell YouTube?

   • Botha: The litigation around music was a very big risk for the company. It made Chad and Steve question whether it was worth soldiering on with the company. We didn't have the resources to keep on fighting. 'Is this real? Are we really doing this?' YouTube's founders, CFO, investors, and board all agreed it was time to sell.

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9. www.officetimeline.com › blog › youtube-history-timelineHistory of YouTube: a timeline

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   Feb 11, 2018 · A year before YouTube’s official launch, former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim came up with the idea while attending a dinner party in San Francisco. As Karim declared in a 2006 interview, the propelling factor resided in the difficulty of finding online videos of Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction at the 2004’s Super Bowl and of that winter’s devastating ...